In a recent interview, The Golden Bachelor’s Theresa Nist recalled a troubling joke her ex-husband, Gerry Turner, told her while they were together. Nist speculated that Turner’s joke masked the hatred he had for her, but expressed her belief that the latter wasn’t going to act on it. Turner and Nist got engaged in November 2023 but divorced several months later in April 2024.

Theresa Nist claims Gerry Turner joked about chopping her up

Theresa Nist recently appeared on the Dear Shandy podcast — hosted by Sharleen Joynt and Andy Levine — where she discussed her former marriage to Gerry Turner. During the interview, Nist brought up a disturbing incident where The Golden Bachelor star jokingly threatened to kill her.

The 72-year-old revealed that she and Turner once took a walk around Pretty Lake and that the latter pointed a shed to her as they were concluding their walk. She alleged that the latter said he would hide her body there after killing and chopping her up. She recalled that Turner wasn’t laughing while telling her this. “Well, if this was his idea of a joke, that was pretty dark humor,” she remarked.

“I just felt like there was animosity in that statement that was underlying,” she further stated. “Like, maybe if he could have gotten rid of me somehow.”

Nist expressed her belief that Turner wouldn’t actually act on his joke, even though it was disturbing. “It’s not true, but it just spoke to an underlying feeling about me,” she added.

Nist’s recollection of the incident comes two days after Turner told Fox News Digital that his marriage to the former was “a monumental mistake.” He added that he hurt Nist and his family and was also “imperfect” with many things during their marriage. “There was no one flash-bang moment where I realized the marriage was over,” he further stated. “It was a gradual march toward the end.”

Moreover, it also comes one month after Turner told US Weekly that Nist “should be worried” about reading the former’s memoir Golden Years. Joynt brought this comment up on the podcast, saying it sounded threatening. Nist concurred, wondering why Turner would say something like that.